ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,461, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Controlling optical parameters at a user's eye" was invented by William Aaron Nicholls (Seattle), Barry David Silverstein (Kirkland, Wash.), Robin Sharma (London) and Ian Erkelens (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to controlling optical parameters at a user's eye using an artificial reality system and tracked user conditions. For example, based on tracked user eye positioning, implementations can adjust the light that enters the user's eye to control an image shell generated at th...